It's counterintuitive but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the government those rescued last or not at all were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

The thought about Republicans is we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least good or bad.

Every day we should hear at least one little song read one good poem see one exquisite picture and if possible speak a few sensible words.

If you can't make it good at least make it look good.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

I say to mankind Be not curious about God. For I who am curious about each am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object yet understand God not in the least.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more and theory less and less. A fact it seems to me is a great thing a sentence printed if not by God then at least by the Devil.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

We owe at least this much to future generations from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times eat at least 45 chocolate bars and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that through a combination of Nutella old pals and Barbra Streisand we can achieve happiness and very probably world peace.

I'm an unorthodox type of guy a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is nothing is more boring people like this. For me it's OK. But most of my friends at least they smoke and drink.

Marriage for a woman at least hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.